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Re: Possible base-20 numeric system

From:Rene Uittenbogaard <ruittenb@...>
Date:Sunday, October 24, 2004, 15:07
Trebor Jung wrote:

 > üstistïs: one hundred and one

1+10*10, right?

 > üsrastïs: one hundred and eleven

1+11*10

Nice :) I like languages with numbers in "little-endian" notation (least
significant part first). "Five and forty".


Simon Richard Clarkstone wrote:

 > for complicated numbers:
 > köttïstïstïs-naetïstïs-ðahtïs-nel
 >   = _19_9_16_4 = _19_0_0_0 + _9_0_0 + _16_0 + _4
 >   = 19*20*20*20
 >   + 9*20*20
 >   + 16*20
 >   + 4
 >   = 155924

I'd use nel-ðahtïs-naetïstïs-köttïstïstïs. As a matter of fact, I think
that'll be the way Eyahwánsi will handle numbers.

René